They were up 205% and 172% respectively on their three-month slot average.
George Osborne, the chancellor and first minister, has ensured his northern powerhouse plan has a slot, but the number of cities apart from Greater Manchester that will want to be run by a directly elected mayor is currently small.
The last in this series of Life Begins, following Fred's departure, won the 9pm time slot with an audience of 6 million and a 25.5% share of the available audience - its second-biggest audience of the series.
Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for her support slot as his tempestuous star turn.
The channel's rolling-news hours are diminishing fast, eaten up by Victoria Derbyshire's unpopular new mid-morning show, dreary repeats of The Travel Show and Click on Sundays, and – as from June – even a simulcast of BBC World News's Outside Source in the plum 9pm slot.
It laid down a valuable marker before next week's world time trial championship and with his team-mate Ian Stannard coming second and moving into the runner-up slot overall, it put Wiggins and Team Sky in a promising position in their quest to win a first stage race on home soil.
With the top two (Lancashire and Surrey) playing out a rain-affected draw in which Gareth Batty, perhaps infected by the battle-fever at the sight of the Red Rose, chose to bat into the third day, Glamorgan seized the chance to close on a promotion slot with a win over Northamptonshire.
Likewise there was huge trouble at ABT when Tharp was shifted from the coveted final place in the programme to the less prestigious opening slot.
Their slot has, instead, been taken by a BFI cocktail reception celebrating their position as the new custodians of both British film culture and film production.
The parts may slot into a CyberJacket or BlazerJet like the ones developed at the University of Bristol in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard's local research lab.
One once recorded an urge to slip her hand under his sponsor's sweatshirt 'to see if there's a slot in his back where they insert the software'.
